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The real red herring is the notion that we have a "STEM worker shortage" in this country.

the skills gap is a myth almost across the board, employers need to stop seeing having to pay employees as an evil though, it benefits everyone in the long run if labor is well compensated

Somehow this is accepted wisdom in the world of executives but not for other types of employment

This is why Dick's Drive-In is such an awesome business.

Local burger chain to Seattle, open 24/7. Starting wage is $15 (and this was before the law forced them to do it), they give benefits, 401k, help with tuition and childcare, hell I think they even get stock options.

All because they realize hey well-compensated workers work harder, are more productive, and less likely to steal than ones who are making minimum wage. Owner of the chain still makes a decent chunk of change, but they aren't taking the lion's share of the company's earnings.

Loyal, happy workers are productive, and this leads almost always to higher profits. It's not a fucking mystery, the proof has been around for decades.

Too bad their food sucks. HOT TAEK!!!

it doesn't tho

it's fast food burgers

they make them good

Garbage, like below deli quality.

I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

The real red herring is the notion that we have a "STEM worker shortage" in this country.

the skills gap is a myth almost across the board, employers need to stop seeing having to pay employees as an evil though, it benefits everyone in the long run if labor is well compensated

Somehow this is accepted wisdom in the world of executives but not for other types of employment

This is why Dick's Drive-In is such an awesome business.

Local burger chain to Seattle, open 24/7. Starting wage is $15 (and this was before the law forced them to do it), they give benefits, 401k, help with tuition and childcare, hell I think they even get stock options.

All because they realize hey well-compensated workers work harder, are more productive, and less likely to steal than ones who are making minimum wage. Owner of the chain still makes a decent chunk of change, but they aren't taking the lion's share of the company's earnings.

Loyal, happy workers are productive, and this leads almost always to higher profits. It's not a fucking mystery, the proof has been around for decades.

Everything you said I agree with.

But employers also seek favor from the fickle "Brand Recognition" god. Get people to buy your garbage because of the Brand and cut costs everywhere coasting into retirement.

The US having super expensive healthcare is actually globally important. That money pays for all the R&D.

having private money pay for all the R&D is objectively a bad thing

this is how you get 30 different penis pills while non-profitable diseases get shit-all in funding

It's also how you get badass cyborg legs instead of the bullshit placeholders medicare pays for.

Uh

All of the badass cyborg leg stuff is... DOD research, which...

It's not though.

Not entirely, but the DOD has a number of programs to fund artificial limb replacement research

The cutting edge lower limb was developed independently. The sports stuff as well. The previous state of the art was locked in a patent which just expired.

Medicare pays for neither except in rare exceptional cases.

I don't think medicare should be buying cutting edge sports quality prosthetics what since all its patients are 65+

It is nice to not fall over when you're 66 because your prosthetic sucks though.

New Hips are max pricey.

not falling over shouldn't be cutting-edge tho

life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies

The real red herring is the notion that we have a "STEM worker shortage" in this country.

the skills gap is a myth almost across the board, employers need to stop seeing having to pay employees as an evil though, it benefits everyone in the long run if labor is well compensated

Somehow this is accepted wisdom in the world of executives but not for other types of employment

This is why Dick's Drive-In is such an awesome business.

Local burger chain to Seattle, open 24/7. Starting wage is $15 (and this was before the law forced them to do it), they give benefits, 401k, help with tuition and childcare, hell I think they even get stock options.

All because they realize hey well-compensated workers work harder, are more productive, and less likely to steal than ones who are making minimum wage. Owner of the chain still makes a decent chunk of change, but they aren't taking the lion's share of the company's earnings.

Loyal, happy workers are productive, and this leads almost always to higher profits. It's not a fucking mystery, the proof has been around for decades.

Too bad their food sucks. HOT TAEK!!!

it doesn't tho

it's fast food burgers

they make them good

Garbage, like below deli quality.

you are an unusual man

life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies

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TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular

DoD has a direct research group with limb replacement. They run out of Walter Reed. I worked down the hall from them. They are not large. They focus exclusively on blast/traumatic injury replacement. One of the main directing forces is a joint VA/DoD program.

it would help if you were less vague as to the companies / products you were referring to. for example, if the cutting edge lower limb prosthetic you are referring to is BiOM, the MIT Biomechatronics group did work with DARPA on some of their prosthetic stuff (although I am not sure the BiOM specifically is attributable to that)

Shameful pursuits and utterly stupid opinions

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AlazullYour body is not a temple, it's an amusement park.Enjoy the ride.Registered Userregular

My adopted grandma fell and cut her head the other day, and despite the paramedics strongly recommending she go to the ER to get fully checked out she refused. Until I offered to go with her. She checked out fine.

(I was basically across the street from the nursing home for boardgame night at a friend's place when I called her re: plans for Sunday morning.)

Now I got a call from the nursing home saying that she's not doing at all well, but they can't reach her daughter (who is away on a vacation), and she may be sent to the ER by the doctor, etc. I clarify that I'm not actually her grandson and that I'm 50 minutes away, but I make some calls and someone manages to contact her son in law.

That guy calls me to let me know that she's at the ER, and goes on to thank me but also thoroughly tell me that the nursing home was authorized to call an ambulance and that there's nothing more for us to do etc. and I don't know if he was trying to reassure me or tell me to not bother them.

Also, like, she's 92 and I don't really know how I feel about the prospect of her dying. Should I be there? I'm sure she'd like that, but I don't really want to be there and potentially have some bad memory. But maybe I'd end up feeling guilty about not being there? In any case, it may not even be a decision I end up being presented with.

Also also, I'm really tired.

I really want you to take the time to think of what ways more on you, the idea of having a bad memory or the potential guilt for not being there?

As someone who was there when his essentially adopted grandmother (she adopted my dad, who married my mom and adopted me, so we were technically family) passed away, while it sucked and sure I may have nightmares about it from time to time, the guilt I would have felt for not being there for her would have been crushing.

The real red herring is the notion that we have a "STEM worker shortage" in this country.

the skills gap is a myth almost across the board, employers need to stop seeing having to pay employees as an evil though, it benefits everyone in the long run if labor is well compensated

Somehow this is accepted wisdom in the world of executives but not for other types of employment

This is why Dick's Drive-In is such an awesome business.

Local burger chain to Seattle, open 24/7. Starting wage is $15 (and this was before the law forced them to do it), they give benefits, 401k, help with tuition and childcare, hell I think they even get stock options.

All because they realize hey well-compensated workers work harder, are more productive, and less likely to steal than ones who are making minimum wage. Owner of the chain still makes a decent chunk of change, but they aren't taking the lion's share of the company's earnings.

Loyal, happy workers are productive, and this leads almost always to higher profits. It's not a fucking mystery, the proof has been around for decades.

Too bad their food sucks. HOT TAEK!!!

it doesn't tho

it's fast food burgers

they make them good

Garbage, like below deli quality.

you are an unusual man

Having a superior sense of taste is worth it.

I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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that being said it can both be true that
1. the government (as research grants, DARPA, etc.) is funding prosthetic research
2. the government (as medicare / the VA) won't actually pay for cutting edge prosthetics, b/c of cost control reasons

anyway @spool32 the point I was trying to make is that, ideally, the majority of R&D costs should be funneled through an organization that doesn't have a profit motive

if you have a national healthcare system with stats whose mission is to provide the best health outcomes with the money they have then they can look at what's actually affecting the populace and spend their money on that

instead aiming at things that are profitable which sometimes lines up with improving health outcomes but certainly not always

life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies

that being said it can both be true that
1. the government (as research grants, DARPA, etc.) is funding prosthetic research
2. the government (as medicare / the VA) won't actually pay for cutting edge prosthetics, b/c of cost control reasons

I don't think anyone disputed 2, though

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AlazullYour body is not a temple, it's an amusement park.Enjoy the ride.Registered Userregular

The real red herring is the notion that we have a "STEM worker shortage" in this country.

the skills gap is a myth almost across the board, employers need to stop seeing having to pay employees as an evil though, it benefits everyone in the long run if labor is well compensated

Somehow this is accepted wisdom in the world of executives but not for other types of employment

This is why Dick's Drive-In is such an awesome business.

Local burger chain to Seattle, open 24/7. Starting wage is $15 (and this was before the law forced them to do it), they give benefits, 401k, help with tuition and childcare, hell I think they even get stock options.

All because they realize hey well-compensated workers work harder, are more productive, and less likely to steal than ones who are making minimum wage. Owner of the chain still makes a decent chunk of change, but they aren't taking the lion's share of the company's earnings.

Loyal, happy workers are productive, and this leads almost always to higher profits. It's not a fucking mystery, the proof has been around for decades.

Too bad their food sucks. HOT TAEK!!!

Dude, they sell cheeseburgers for like $2.

When you can order two burgers, fries and a shake for less than $10 it flies under the radar of culinary critique.

The real red herring is the notion that we have a "STEM worker shortage" in this country.

the skills gap is a myth almost across the board, employers need to stop seeing having to pay employees as an evil though, it benefits everyone in the long run if labor is well compensated

Somehow this is accepted wisdom in the world of executives but not for other types of employment

This is why Dick's Drive-In is such an awesome business.

Local burger chain to Seattle, open 24/7. Starting wage is $15 (and this was before the law forced them to do it), they give benefits, 401k, help with tuition and childcare, hell I think they even get stock options.

All because they realize hey well-compensated workers work harder, are more productive, and less likely to steal than ones who are making minimum wage. Owner of the chain still makes a decent chunk of change, but they aren't taking the lion's share of the company's earnings.

Loyal, happy workers are productive, and this leads almost always to higher profits. It's not a fucking mystery, the proof has been around for decades.

Too bad their food sucks. HOT TAEK!!!

Dude, they sell cheeseburgers for like $2.

When you can order two burgers, fries and a shake for less than $10 it flies under the radar of culinary critique.

Some of us pay more for quality Alazull! And they aren't even that cheap compared to like Taco Bell.

I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

Http:// pleasepaypreacher.net

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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular